Oh, they didn’t get forcibly conscripted, which later led to draft riots? That’s all fake news? Come now, you know that’s not a myth.
about 2.1 million men served in the Union Army during the War. Of that number about 4% were drafted and another 9% were paid substitutes. The balance, enlisted in the Union army. Demographically, about 1 million were white men born in the U.S., 210,000 were black free men or ex slaves and 920,000 were white men from countries outside of the U.S.